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Title: Melchior's Dream and Other Tales

Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

Release Date: August 17, 2005 [EBook #16540]

Language: English

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MELCHIOR'S DREAM

AND OTHER TALES,

BY

JULIANA HORATIA EWING.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.
NEW YORK: E. & J.B. YOUNG & CO.

[Published under the direction of the General Literature
Committee.]

Dedicated

TO

FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.

CONTENTS.

MELCHIOR'S DREAM

THE BLACKBIRD'S NEST

FRIEDRICH'S BALLAD

A BIT OF GREEN

MONSIEUR THE VISCOUNT'S FRIEND

THE YEW-LANE GHOSTS

A BAD HABIT

A HAPPY FAMILY

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

It is always a memorable era in a mother's life when she first
introduces a daughter into society. Many things contribute to make it
so; among which is the fact of the personal blessing to herself, in
having been permitted to see the day--to have been spared, that is, to
watch over her child in infancy, and now to see her entering life upon
her own account.

But a more uncommon privilege is the one granted to me on the present
occasion, of introducing a daughter into the literary world; and the
feelings of pride and pleasure it calls forth, are certainly not less
powerful than those created by the commoner occurrence. It is my
comfort also to add that these are not overclouded by any painful
anxiety or misgiving. There may be differences of opinion as to the
precise amount of literary merit in these tales; but viewed as the
first productions of a young author, they are surely full of promise